Spring Breakers (movie)

It's difficult to discuss "Lost River," the feature debut as writer and director from actor Ryan Gosling, without referencing the film's first appearance nearly a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. It marked the film, rightly or wrongly, as some kind of grand-scale disaster-piece and so it is just now getting a small-scale theatrical opening alongside a digital release.

Turns out "Lost River" is indeed a mess, but it's the best mess possible, an evocative grab-bag of images and moods with a heartfelt sincerity and conflicting impulses of romantic melancholy and hardscrabble hopefulness.

The story concerns a family trying to hold onto their home as others...

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